The Vista November 4, 1993

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University of Central Oklahoma

THURSDAY November 4, 1993

The Student Voice Since 1903

Panel discusses UCO censure By Roy Howe

Staff Writer

Pianist fights war with music SARAJEVO, BosniaHerzegovina (AP) — If music soothes the savage soul, Marc Ponthus has a remedy for wartorn Sarajevo. "Culture is a human right," the 36-year-old Ponthus said after his piano concert of classical and avant garde works, staged Monday in the frosty, unheated Academy of Performing Arts. Ponthus played works by Bach, Debussy and modern German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen for an audience of about 100 people in the Academy, which sits under the gaze of Serb snipers in the hills around Sarajevo. It was "a breeze of civilization, and I'm trying to breathe in as much as I can because it's rare," said Aldin Sijercic, who was among the audience for the concert by Ponthus, a French native who lives in New York.

The 26 year-old censure against the University of Central Oklahoma could mean nothing at all or all in the world, said the

American Association of University Professors' state President, Lloyd Musselman. Musselman was one of four panelists who addressed AAUP members Monday to discuss faculty rights and responsibilities. The university was placed on the national AAUP's censure list during 1967 for firing a tenured professor without due pro-

Sex unlawful in jury selection? WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's first major sexual-equality case in years asks whether it is just as unlawful to keep people off juries because of their sex as it is to bar them because of their race. "Gender discrimination has no place within the court system," lawyers for James E. Bowman said in court papers. Bowman contends his rights were violated when an all-female jury decided he fathered a boy born in 1989.

Young murder suspects calm, nervous PRESTON, England (AP) — The youngest alleged murderers in Britain are a calm, apparently impassive 11-year-old and his crying, nervous companion. They are charged with abducting and murdering 2-yearold James Bulger when he slipped away from his mother in a shopping mall in Liverpool on Feb. 12. They have pleaded innocent. YSee WORLD WRAP, Page 12

Supervisor Les Cossey, of the Edmond City Water Department, and Luke Schrimsh er work to fix a broken water main near Evans Hall. Three

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water mains have broken since Sunday leaving parts of the campus without water. (Photo by Christopher Smith)

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cess. "Censure means that you carry a stigma," Musselman said. "It need not impact you in anyway, especially in a tight job market with professors hungering for a job. It would not inhibit them at all from coming to your school. "But if you are censured and you are in your twentieth year of being censured," Musselman said, "two things should come to mind: "Something is still wrong with your university or that wrong has been corrected, but no one has taken the initiative to begin a dialogue with the national agency in Washington D.C. to remove the censure," he said. "As I understand, your current president, unlike your previous president, has responded to an annual mailing that goes out from the national office to all censured schools." George Nigh, UCO president, received an inquiry lastJune from the national AAUP regarding UCO's view on removing the censure. Nigh replied saying that he regrets UCO being on the censure list, but said this happened more than 20 years and three university presidents ago. "I am at a loss as to why, 20 years after an alleged violation, that your prestigious organization would find us unworthy," Nigh responded. "Please don't bother to correspond with us any further unless your organization works out the requisite steps to make us want to be on your approved list," Nigh's letter said. During late July the national AAUP organization responded to Nigh's letter outlining changes they would require to take UCO off the censure list. These changes included a revision of the instructors' Policies and Procedures manual, a general redress in the procedures for dismissing a faculty member and for scholarships to be placed in the name of the professor who was fired in 1967. "Unfortunately, the dialog has become kind of truncated," Musselman said. Concerning the final letter to Nigh from the AAUP in Washington D.C., "I believe your president read that last paragraph, focused in, as I would have, and said 'what in the world are these people saying to me' and said, 'I'm supposed to do what with ten scholarships?'" • See AAUP, Page 6

Football U c 0 quarterback Terry Payneand Broncho his teammates hope a week off will propel them to victory Saturday.

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